Bloody Thursday deals first blow to Namibian seal cull

The fate of thousands of nursing seal pups will be sealed today when clubs once again swing during the annual seal harvest until 15 November 2010. As the sun rises at 06h32 on Namibia’s major seal colonies, dozens of club wielding sealers will start with what has been dubbed “the bloodiest, most savage seal hunt” [...]

Worst Ice Year Kills Canadian Seals Before Hunters Can

Thousands of harp seal pups are presumed dead in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence and starving pups are being found abandoned on the beaches of Prince Edward Island, victims of the worst ice conditions ever recorded in the region…

‘Bloodied’ Spanish activists protest Canada seal hunt

A group of several half-naked women covered in fake blood staged a protest in front of the Canadian consulate in Barcelona on Monday to denounce the country’s annual seal hunt. The animal rights activists lay in Barcelona’s Plaza de Catalunya while men dressed as hunters pretended to beat them with sticks…

Whose Skin Are You In?

by Lisa Selvaggio. “There is the one caught in the trap, its leg held hard, unable to break free and in excruciating pain. The breath, the life, the walking in the wilderness called home, the pulse, the blood, and then snap! The pain, the confusion, the agony, the blood that spills out”…